Late Update
As you may have read in Geralds update, I've been pretty busy lately. I haven't even watched all demos for this update,
I'd rather get this update finished as soon as possible. Sorry about this.
Quake Demos
Matthias Belz made a bunch of demos from the earlier mexx levels a while ago; about time we added them:
Improvements To The QdQ Series
The QdQ page has updated with some reorganisation of the front page. They now have a site index, and they have also added a new page which lists the improvements which have been made to certain maps of the QdQ series (including QdQr, QdQlite and Qd100Q), mostly based on demos which have been submitted to SDA.
Quake II Demos
Black Out's demos:
Easy jail1 in 0:34.8, an improvement of 0.5 seconds over Optic's previous record
Easy mintro in 0:24.8, an improvement of 0.4 seconds over Optic's previous record
Easy train in 1:06.1, an improvement of 17.2 seconds over Col Korn's previous record
Easy city2b in 0:19.2, an improvement of 5.6 seconds over Black Out's previous record
Easy waste1a in 0:28.7, an improvement of 1.3 seconds over my previous record
DEMED Released
DEMED is a utility which fills in the gaps left by the QdQ utilities Demtool and Demix.
Comments
Apologies to those who have sent in demos for Quake but they have not been put up yet. Muad'Dib was not around the last few days. He just returned and started working on updating the new Quake demos... 32 of them! Well, a while ago, I just received this message from him: "I have to get some sleep now, can't finish this now. I'm seeing small furry animals lurking about. I've been away all weekend, drinking, partying and even working. Me need some rest to... and it's 6:30am here." The new Quake demos should be up by tommorrow I guess.
May 7th by Tangent
Quake II Demos
Black Out (previously known as Brent Wise) improved a few demos he made in the last update and did one more:
Easy ware1 in 1:40.6, 1.3 seconds faster than his own previous record
Easy ware2 in 0:59.9, 2.1 seconds faster than his own previous record
Easy jail3c in 0:14.1, 1.2 seconds faster than Col Korn's previous record
Hard jail3c in 0:14.2, 1.3 seconds faster than Col Korn's previous record
Easy power2b in 0:23.5, 1.7 seconds faster than Black Out's previous record
Hard power2b in 0:23.8, 2.5 seconds fasterh than Black Out's previous record
Comments
I saw on Bluesnews that there was a demo utility called DemoPlay which supposedly allows you to use VCR functions (pause, slow motion, fast forward, etc) while watching Quake or Quakeworld demos. Sounded cool, I thought. It'll be really useful for watching speed demos with, so I downloaded it and tried it out, and was badly dissapointed. Basically, it just bound some of your keys to the "host_framerate [val]" commands. Nothing we don't know already, and it suffered from the same limitation: no rewind. Furthermore, since Quakeworld does not support the "host_framerate" command, you can't use the fast forward/slow motion/pause feature in Quakeworld.
At the moment, the only utility I know of which allows you to fast forward/rewind through Quake movies is Keygrip's demo server. It even allows you to move around and watch from different angles. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Quakeworld demos.
In case you don't already know how to use the host_framerate command to do slow motion/fast forward: To do slow motion, set host_framerate to a value lower than the reciprocal of your framerate (e.g. if your framerate is around 20, then set host_framerate to a value lower than 1/20, or 0.05) and to do fast forward, set host_framerate to a value higher than that. To do a pause, set host_framerate to something really low like 0.000000000001, and to return to normal speed playback, set host_framerate to 0.
May 7th by Tangent
Quake II Demos
Black Out (previously known as Brent Wise) improved a few demos he made in the last update and did one more:
Easy ware1 in 1:40.6, 1.3 seconds faster than his own previous record
Easy ware2 in 0:59.9, 2.1 seconds faster than his own previous record
Easy jail3c in 0:14.1, 1.2 seconds faster than Col Korn's previous record
Hard jail3c in 0:14.2, 1.3 seconds faster than Col Korn's previous record
Easy power2b in 0:23.5, 1.7 seconds faster than Black Out's previous record
Hard power2b in 0:23.8, 2.5 seconds fasterh than Black Out's previous record
Comments
I saw on Bluesnews that there was a demo utility called DemoPlay which supposedly allows you to use VCR functions (pause, slow motion, fast forward, etc) while watching Quake or Quakeworld demos. Sounded cool, I thought. It'll be really useful for watching speed demos with, so I downloaded it and tried it out, and was badly dissapointed. Basically, it just bound some of your keys to the "host_framerate [val]" commands. Nothing we don't know already, and it suffered from the same limitation: no rewind. Furthermore, since Quakeworld does not support the "host_framerate" command, you can't use the fast forward/slow motion/pause feature in Quakeworld.
At the moment, the only utility I know of which allows you to fast forward/rewind through Quake movies is Keygrip's demo server. It even allows you to move around and watch from different angles. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Quakeworld demos.
In case you don't already know how to use the host_framerate command to do slow motion/fast forward: To do slow motion, set host_framerate to a value lower than the reciprocal of your framerate (e.g. if your framerate is around 20, then set host_framerate to a value lower than 1/20, or 0.05) and to do fast forward, set host_framerate to a value higher than that. To do a pause, set host_framerate to something really low like 0.000000000001, and to return to normal speed playback, set host_framerate to 0.
May 5th by Tangent
Doom done Quick Released
Doom done Quick (DdQ), a speed run through of Ultimate Doom in Ultra Violent skills in 19:41, has been released. It is available for download from the QdQ page.
DdQStats Released
DdQStats is the Doom version of QdQStats, which allows you to start Doom levels with different stats so as to allow each level in a multi-level episode speed run to be recorded seperately. It is available for download from the QdQ page.
Quake II Demos
Col. Korn has been aggressively improving the really short levels:
Easy jail3c in 0:15.3, beating Optic's previous record by 0.7 seconds
Hard jail3c in 0:15.5, beating Optic's previous record by 0.5 seconds
Easy fact1b in 0:10.0, beating Optic's previous record by 0.1 seconds
Hard fact1b in 0:10.0, beating his own previous record by 0.1 seconds
Easy hangar1b in 0:06.4, beating Optic's previous record by 0.1 seconds
Hard hangar1b in 0:06.5, beating Optic's previous record by 0.1 seconds
Comments
I have not seen Doom for over 2 years and I just installed Doom yesterday just to watch DdQ. And oh gawd... the motion sickness I never experienced for 2 years came back again in full force. I was going to do an update to this page yesterday after watching DdQ, but I guess I wasn't in the right condition to do it. I doubt I'll be watching DdQ a second time.
BBlite is a good run to watch. A lot of it is similar to the original sBB, but there were a few new tricks added which were missed in Yonatan's run. This is the first episode run which is not put together by the QdQ team, but rather by the D&M team of Draven and Muad'Dib.
Looks like people are starting to work on the tougher demos including those involving grenade jumps, barrel jumps, rocket+grenade jumps. Kinda disappointing to see that the good old days of everyone using instincts to time the grenade jumps are gone. Now everyone's just using the grenade counter. Personally, I think that the grenade counter spoils all the fun of developing grenade jump timing skillz.
May 3rd by Radix
Quake Demos
I filled up more spaces in pse's nightmare column:
pse2 in 1:09.
This is one second *faster* than Stefan's demo on easy...
pse4 in 1:19,
22 seconds slower than the easy demo, because of a detour I have to do.
Will Marsh has gotten interested in 100% demos, he improved two nightmare 100%s:
e2m1 in 1:49,
one second faster than my Qd100Q demo.
e3m2 in 2:06,
23 seconds faster than Matthias' demo.
Stefan Schwoon did his first 100% demo:
e1m2 on easy in :59,
five seconds better than Optic's previous demo.
Attila Csernyik and Peter Horvath made two coop 100% demos on easy:
e1m3 in 1:11,
nineteen seconds faster than Larris' and Gunnar's demo.
Hard 100% biggun in 0:42.9, 0.6 seconds improvement over Yonatan's previous record
Comments
This update was really supposed to have been done earlier, but on the way back from renewing my passport, I stopped by a games shop and on a compulsion bought Starcraft. Brought it back, installed it, and....